7 FEBRUARY 1874, Page 14

A QUOTATION.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your notice of Dr. Talmage's book you say you do not know where he gets the line, " Vidit et erubuit Nympha." It is part of a celebrated though fanciful epigram by Richard Crashaw. Thus it runs :— " Unde rubor vestris et non sna purpura lymphis? QUEO rosa mirantes tam nova mutat aquas ? Numen, convivas, praesens cognoscite numen, Nympha pudica Deum vidit et erubuit l" "Whence the strange purple this pale water shows? What rose so fresh has touched it till it glows ? A power divine, ye guests, discern—be hushed— The modest nymph has seen her God ilnd blushed."